"In this essay I discuss the transformation of television journalism into popular culture, and the ideological effect of this transformation. The analysis is based on the systematic observation of Slovene television news (on TV Slovenia and POP TV), carried out for several weeks in 1998." (Summary)
"This is the first in-depth study of how television viewers around the world respond to the ever increasing mass of information available from news programmes. It describes and interprets the type of news available and how it is understood in the context of everyday life. The study is based on news
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analysis, individual interviews and household interviews in seven countries: the United States, India, Mexico, Italy, Denmark, Israel and Belarus. Contributors include Michael Gurevitch, Klaus Bruhn Jensen, Tamar Liebes, Paolo Mancini and Guillermo Orozco-Gomez." (Publisher description)
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"How was the war in Bosnia reported on television in countries as diverse as Algeria, Croatia, Turkey, Slovenia and the USA? What role did TV news play in the formation of public opinion and government policy about Bosnia? What role should it have played? 'Bosnia by Television' is one of the first a
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cademic analyses of the inter-relationship of television news and the Bosnian conflict. A seires of essays answers the above questions through a variety of cultural and political perspectives, and contributors include media professionals and academics from thirteen countries." (Back cover)
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Ziel des Sammelbandes ist es, "die Dichotomie von Allmacht bzw. Ohnmacht der Medien zugunsten einer differenzierteren Betrachtungsweise aufzulösen. Die Beiträge erläutern die gesellschaftlichen Rahmenbedingungen und stellen die bisherigen kommunikationswissenschaftlichen Befunde vor. Abschließen
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d werden mögliche Konsequenzen aus der Wirkungsdebatte und Forschungsperspektiven diskutiert". (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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Firmenportrait des brasilianischen Medienkonzerns.
"[...] this issue of the Journal features a symposium of communication scholarship with Latin America as its focus. The symposium was suggested and skillfully brought to fruition by Elizabeth Fox, a Washington, D .C.-based communication policy researcher with broad contacts and experience in Latin A
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merica. As Dr. Fox notes in her introduction, this symposium shows how Latin American scholars are “concerned with basic issues of democratization and equality, while searching for new paths of scientific analysis, policy relevance, and social application.” Those values (democracy and equality) and those goals (policy relevance and social applications) are particularly pronounced in Latin American scholarship. But I would argue that they are also well worth some serious thought by all of us who work as communication researchers and who would like to see what we do make a positive difference in the world." (Editor's note)
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"El resultado de esa investigación arrojó varias luces sobre las tareas a emprenderse. El campo de los noticieros era prioritario, pero también la creación y la ficción reclaman su puesto en la capacitación. La tecnología es de punta, pero se manifiesta cierta desconfianza o timidez en cuanto
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a los contenidos. Se busca y se pretende responder a las necesidades culturales de nuestros pueblos, pero no se siente seguridad en lo que se hace. Esta investigación nos muestra que aún queda mucho camino que recorrer. Pero, para confrontar los resultados de esa investigación, que mejor que dialogar c·on los responsables de los programas de informativos de América Latina, que mejor que escuchar directamente sus opiniones, a fin de validar esos resultados o acaso modificarlos. Precisamente por eso se llevó a cabo la convocatoria a este encuentro, donde cada uno de los presentes representa la experiencia de enfrentar diariamente las ideas con la realidad. Estamos seguros que las ideas expuestas por los participantes en el seminario de directores de informativos de televisión, cuyas exposiciones y participación en los diferentes foros, contribuirán a un mayor y mejor comprensión del fenómeno de la comunicación por televisión en América Latina." (Introducción, página 12)
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